{"id":15711,"date":"2012-02-21T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=15711"},"modified":"2012-02-21T12:15:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T19:15:12","slug":"lunchtime-links-will-the-robo-signing-settlement-fail-will-western-civ-collapse-to-ruins-who-cares-sheldon-cooper-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15711\/lunchtime-links-will-the-robo-signing-settlement-fail-will-western-civ-collapse-to-ruins-who-cares-sheldon-cooper-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunchtime links: Will the robo-signing settlement fail? Will Western Civ collapse to ruins? Who cares? Sheldon Cooper lives!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From good friend of the dawgs, Jim Klein, comes this grim reminder of the times we live in: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.survivalrealty.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SurvivalRealty.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Todd Zywicki finds <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/realspin\/2012\/02\/20\/the-robo-signing-settlement-seeds-of-recovery-or-chaos\/\" target=\"_blank\">the robo-signing settlement unsettling<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But despair you nothing: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/science\/article\/2012-02\/boy-who-played-fusion?page=all\" target=\"_blank\">There is a real-life Sheldon Cooper going to high school in Nevada<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Limited lunchtime? Give it all to the third article. It&#8217;s the best read, and the most inspiring. The world runs by itself, but your spirit does not. Feed it wisely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From good friend of the dawgs, Jim Klein, comes this grim reminder of the times we live in: SurvivalRealty.com. Todd Zywicki finds the robo-signing settlement unsettling. But despair you nothing: There is a real-life Sheldon Cooper going to high school in Nevada. Limited lunchtime? Give it all to the third article. It&#8217;s the best read, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,379,26,5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-casual-friday","7":"category-innovation","8":"category-lending","9":"category-real-estate","10":"category-technology","12":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13389,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/13389\/investors-to-put-toxic-loans-back-on-b-of-a\/","url_meta":{"origin":15711,"position":0},"title":"Investors to put toxic loans back on B of A","author":"Tom Johnson","date":"October 19, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"No wonder B of A is accelerating foreclosures. They will need the cash from the sale of REO's to repurchase about $47 Billion of bad mortgage bonds that were sold with, shall we say, less than pristine origination paperwork. This is where the robo signing mess matters. If the chain\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Lending&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Lending","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/lending\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13382,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/13382\/rule-of-law-and-all-that-the-foreclosure-mess\/","url_meta":{"origin":15711,"position":1},"title":"Rule of Law and All That: The Foreclosure Mess","author":"Damon Chetson","date":"October 17, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Suffice to say, I take a different view of the current foreclosure - robo-signer - problem now confronting the mortgage industry. Where Greg calls the banks' fraud upon the court \"procedural laxities,\" I say the banks are committing, wait for it, \"frauds upon the court.\" Greg does a neat rhetorical\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2431,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2431\/thinking\/","url_meta":{"origin":15711,"position":2},"title":"Thinking","author":"Russell Shaw","date":"December 26, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"It started out innocently enough. I began to think at parties now and then -- just to loosen up. 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